Trump's path to victory is in trouble based on the latest polls in North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while the campaign seems to have given up entirely on Virginia. "It's hard to see any path that gets him to 270 short of some seismic event," says one Republican strategist. The Wall Street Journal assesses the new electoral math here.

The morning's lead story in the New York Times reports that some of the GOP's biggest donors are demanding that the Republican National Committee split with Trump immediately. Read it here.

But several party leaders and activists in swing states are "closing ranks" in support of Trump, suspicious about this wave of allegations. See Politico.

In a Thursday night speech in Ohio, President Obama ridiculed the GOP for nominating Trump after years of pushing "family values." Coverage at Talking Points Memo.

Trump is alleging that a "global power structure" involving the media, corporate interests, and Hillary Clinton is out to defeat him, and the Washington Post sees it as being in line with previous Trump "conspiracy theories."

Trump canceled an appearance on Fox's Sean Hannity show Thursday night, though the show featured Bill Clinton's accusers, who continued their criticism of both Clintons, reports USA Today.

Trump repeatedly called deaf actress Marlee Matlin "retarded" and mimicked her when she appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, reports the Daily Beast.

The Los Angeles Times digs up another old joke by Trump, this one about how he'd be dating 14-year-old girls in a decade.

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j_h_

Oct 15, 2016 12:39 AM CDT

In other news his chance of exceeding 270 sexual assault incidents being brought to light is increasing.

DeathRace2000

Oct 14, 2016 7:59 PM CDT

Wait. guys, no, everybody is lying! The media is lying, ever pollster is lying, the Republican primaries lied when they didn't even give Trump a majority (just going to show that even when Trump wins, he loses), and all those women are lying (even though Trump admitted to the very behavior he is accused of) (also while we're at it let's just say all the Cosby accuser are lying because why the hell not)! When Trump loses, as one might expect of a candidate who has never been ahead nationally for than two minutes, I am going to flip out and claim the election has been rigged even though this is what the polls have showed since the very beginning and he wasn't even able to get a majority in his own primary. Everybody is liar! I am not in denial and I certainly don't need counseling to deal with whatever life situation that has caused me to throw in with a desperate and impotent rapist! I mean racist.